Deficit Tops A Record $130B

This year’s deficit will top $130 billion, the highest in Canadian history, according to figures detailed yesterday by Finance Minister Bill Morneau. The shortfall is triple the modern equivalent of Parliament’s 1942 wartime deficit of $39.3 billion: “Extraordinary.”

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